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““Where May I Best Invest My 
Life’’ is a question constantly arising 
in the minds of our young men and 
women. The Presbyterian Board of 
Foreign Missions here presents some 
very unusual opportunities for Life 
Investment. We need immediately 


a number of candidates for perma- 
nent foreign service. 

One of the most urgent calls is for 
two 


FRENCH SPEAKING MISSIONARIES 


for our West Africa Mission in Cam- 
eroun. The French are now in pos- 
session of this territory and it is ex- 
ceedingly necessary that we have 
one or two men on the ground at 
once who can converse and corre- 
spond with the government officials. 
Our work will be greatly hampered 
unless we fill this place speedily. An’ 
ordained single man for life service 
would best fit the need, but we are 
willing to consider married men and 
also unordained men who might be 
able to go out for only three years, 


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acting as interpreters and entering 
sympathetically into the great Evan- 
gelistic, Educational and Industrial 
work of the Mission. 


In a most wonderful manner 


_. AGRICULTURAL WoRK 


a as a part of the great Foreign Mis- 


sionary Enterprise, is opening up in 
India. Mr. Sam Higginbottom, with 
his demonstration farm at Allaha- 
bad, North India, has interested the 
Maharajahs of nearby Provinces: 
they have visited the farm and begin 
to realize something of the unusual 
practical help which scientific agri- 
culture can bring to millions of their 
people now living constantly on the 
verge of starvation because of ignor- 
ance in these matters. Mr. Higgin- 
bottom writes: 


“The men needed must first of all and 
before all else, be ambassadors of 
Christ; they must clearly understand 
that agriculture will not save India, : 
no matter how good it is, but Jesus 
is the only hope and the greatest 
need of India, and agriculture like 
education, evangelistic effort, or 
Christian literature, is but the point 
from which to approach the main 
problem. It needs more than earthly 
wisdom to choose the right men, and 
if this work is of God, he has fore- 


seen all along what was necessary 


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and just what is needed and so | be- 
lieve when you make an appeal, the 
very best men will come forward. 
Of course, because the man is spir- 
itually strong and thorough, the truth 
will have set him free and his purely 
technical training will be of the very 
best. We need (1) one man strong 
in desert problems and _ irrigation. 
(2) One man strong in dairying, 
cattle feeding, breeding. (3) One 
man for agricultural chemistry.”’ 


EWING CHRISTIAN COLLEGE 
where this work is being carried on 


is at Allahabad, the capital of the 
Northern Provinces and an educa- 
tional and religious center. 


“The Agricultural Department has re- 
ceived new impetus from the visit of 
Professor Higginbottom to America, 
where he raised $30,000 for the De- 
partment. The purpose of the school 
is to turn out men who can earn their 
own living on the land by farming. 
Each student is given a plot of five 
acres on which he is expected to 
learn to use improved tools and to 
carry on the whole work of farming. 
Besides the farming work, a dairy is 
maintained which more than pays 
expenses. Members of the agricul- 
tural staff have visited during the 
year the native states of Gwalior and 
Jodhpur. In November, 1915, Sir 
James Meston, the Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor of the United Provinces, unveiled 
a tablet on the opening of the Eliza- 
beth McCormick Hostel of the Agri- 


cultural Department.” 


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Besides these three, we need an 
agriculturist for similar work at Moga 
Training School in the Punjab 60 
miles from Lahore. Here our work 
is emphatically among the poor, 
many of the people being compelled 
to live upon the greens picked from 
the fields and roadsides. This pov- 
erty is caused largely by the indus- 
trial system and because of the ig- 
norance of the people regarding the 
possibilities of the soil, conservation, 
etc. The Moga Training School is 
preparing teachers for village Chris- 
tians and the work department is an 
important phase. Here is empha- 
sized the dignity of labor and we 
wish to push Agricultural education 
in this field. Work of this kind 
begun at Moga will no doubt widely 
influence the surrounding districts 
‘and bring great blessing to these 
needy thousands. 


We cannot have a self-supporting 
Church on the Mission Field until 
the members are able to support 
themselves. An unusual opportunity 
is offered the men who are able to 
undertake this work. 


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“VIGNI NI SNIHSAYHL JO AVA AAN CNV GIO AHL 





PERSIA 


is also calling for a trained agri- 
culturist with some knowledge of 
fruit growing to fill a similar position 
in that needy land. Here war has 
devastated parts of the country and 
scattered the people. As they return 
to their desolate homes and take up 
again the struggle for life, they need 
help. Their Agricultural methods 
are primitive and inadequate and 
this most practical form of mission- 
ary service will be welcomed and 
open many doors to the Gospel mes- 
sage. 

This man is wanted at Urumiah in 
our West Persia Mission where fruit 
growing (grapes, figs, etc.,) is an 
important activity. 

Where are the men who are com- 
petent and free to enter now upon 
this most practical phase of Christian 
Missions — ““The Gospel of the 
Plough” ? 

This Board constantly has calls 
for qualified 


ORDAINED MISSIONARIES. 
The ordained missionary lives a 
broad life; the work calls for all that 


is in a man: every item of knowledge 
he possesses and all ability to do 


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things will be brought into requisi- 
tion, from preaching sermons to con- 
structing buildings. He may be 
Acting Pastor of a _ native City 
Church or at a Missionary center. 
In the outlying districts there will be 
villages having Chapels, or groups of 
Christians meeting in the homes, 
these are the nuclei of Churches to 
be. The missionary will go out to 
these little groups of Christians to 
give counsel, encouragement and 
comfort and to superintend and 
foster these beginnings of the Church 
on the Mission Field. He may also 
itinerate, going into the ‘regions 
beyond”’ doing the work of an Evan- 
gelist and seeking new centers for 
future stations. If he has aptitude 
for teaching, the Mission may assign 
him to educational work. He must 
be ready ‘“‘to bind up the broken- 
hearted”’ or to furnish “first aid to 
the injured,’ ’—all things to all men 
to win some. 


We Need Just Now—-A Number of 
Ordained Men for 


LATIN AMERICA 


one in Central Brazil, two in Chile 
and two for Colombia. 


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In Guatemala we need one especi- 
ally to push forward evangelistic 
work, 

For India, one ordained man is 
needed in the Punjab; and _ for 
Japan, one, and Persia, two. 


MEXICO. 


In spite of the civil war at present 
going on in Mexico, Mission work 
progresses rapidly. The Girl’s School 
at San Angel, near Mexico City, is 
running at its full capacity, and the 
Boys’ School at Coyoacan has a 
goodly number present despite the 
fact that many of the pupils who 
were in the school at the outbreak 
of the recent hostilities are now oc- 
cupying positions of importance in 
connection with the Carranza Gov- 
ernment. 

There are needed in Mexico at the 
present time three ordained men and 
two teachers. Many of the large 
congregations such as at Saltillo and 
at San Luis Potasi and at numerous 
congregations in Yucatan, are with- 
out any pastoral supervision. The 
few missionaries at work in Mexico 
are over-taxed. Reports which come 
to us from the missionaries on the 
field indicate a readiness on the part 


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of the people to hear the Gospel and 
a desire for schools and for the 
American Missionaries. In a few 
weeks all the male members of the 
Mexican Mission will be at their posts 
of duty, but it will not be possible 
for them to respond to the many 
calls which will be made upon them 
for their services. The fields are 
white unto the harvest. New schools 
must be opened and the churches, 
which for so many months have been 
pastorless, need supervision. In all 
parts of Mexico our missionaries are 
gladly welcomed, our Church 
services are uninterrupted and the 
schools are being opened as fast as 
teachers are being secured. 

The call for Mexico is imperative 
and is immediate. 

There are urgent calls also for a 
number of men and women for our 


EDUCATIONAL WORK 


Ewing Christian College at Alla- 
habad, North India, is greatly in need 
of a strong man to fill the chair of 
Chemistry. Because of our lack of 
housing facilities there just now, we 
must have an unmarried man. The 
College would hope later to furnish 
accommodations so that this mission- 
ary, if it seemed desirable, might 


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settle permanently and have a resi- 
dence of his own. Even a short term 
man would be considered for this 
position in the hope that permanent 
arrangements might be made later. 
This Chair calls for a man who has 
had some experience in teaching and 
who has taken an A.M. or Ph.D. in 
Chemistry. The work is of College 
grade and presents an attractive op- 
portunity for a qualified Christian 
teacher to influence four or five hun- 
dred choice Hindu and Moham- 
medan students who are going out as 
leaders among the 316,000,000 of 
India. 


Bangkok Christian College is the 
only evangelical Christian School 
for high grade instruction to young 
men in South Siam. 


It is located in the capital city and 
is therefore in immediate competi- 
tion and comparison with all the 
higher institutions of learning of 
the government and other § sys- 
tems; consequently it occupies 
a place of special importance 
demanding special equipment. Bang- 
kok is a city of 800,000. The 
‘College’ is really an institution of 
academy or high school grade and 
from this one can form a _ good 


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idea of the teaching work to be 
done. It is holding its own and 
growing slowly, having developed 
naturally and to be further de- 
veloped, no doubt, so that finally 
it will be of real college grade. It 
now provides, we believe, the best 
education in quality which can be 
obtained in Bangkok. It is one of 
the doors of access to classes of 
people in Bangkok to whom we 
could not otherwise bring the Gospel. 
Excellent teachers have been thus 
prepared for our Mission Schools 
throughout Siam. 

Since the Siamese are greatly in 
need of the industrial element in 
education, Bangkok College is en- 
deavoring in a quiet way to meet 
this need, furnishing also in this, a 
method of student self help. 

Here is an unusual opportunity 
for the investment of life in a 
Christian enterprise which bids fair 
to influence vitally the entire future 
of Siam. 

We are looking for an Educator 
to take the Principalship of this im- 
portant institution; one who has had 
experience in this country as High 
School Principal or as Superintend- 
ent—or as a part of his graduate 
work. 


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In Persia we need no less than 
four or five 


WOMEN MISSIONARIES 


at once:—one for the Girls’ School 
at Tabriz, West Persia and two for 
Evangelistic work in the same sta- 
tion. We need a single woman 
most urgently in Teheran, East 
Persia, and one at Hamadan in the 
same mission. 


The Girls’ School at Tabriz enrols 
about 200 pupils. The department 
for Moslem girls is making most 
encouraging progress. The interest 
in religious matters among all pupils 
was marked this last year and there 
were several candidates for Church 
membership. 


The Evangelistic work promises 
great returns. Persia's heart is 
open to the American Missionary as 
never before. 


Those people impoverished, dis- 
couraged and heart broken by war's 
devastation know who were their 
best friends in time of need. One 
of the great Compensations of the 
War will be wide open doors in Per- 
sia for the Gospel Message. 


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MAN CURED OF BLINDNESS LEADING FRIENDS 
TO HOSPITAL, CHANGTEH. 


CHINA 


is calling for a woman educator 
needed in Our North China Mission 
at Poating-fu. 


WESTERN INDIA 


needs a well-equipped teacher for 
the Kolhapur Girls School which 
besides Kindergarten, Primary and 
Middle Departments, has a High 
School Department recognized by 
the Government. Plans are in pro- 
gress for the affiliation of the School 
with the University of Bombay. 
There are 200 pupils, including chil- 
dren of some of the high officials. 
Here is a rare opportunity to put the 
impress of a Christian Education 
upon the future home life of India. 


North Siam (Laos) sends an urg- 
ent call for a Woman Missionary at 
Chiengmai, and Nan; and South 
Siam has a most important need to 


be filled at | 

The Harriet House School for 
Girls at Bangkok, the Capital, where 
the enrollment is only limited by the 
size of the School buildings, and 
where well equipped Christian Siam- 


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A CHINESE NURSE 


ese teachers are being furnished 
every year for the girls’ schools in 
different parts of the country. 


CHOSEN (Korea) 


needs a woman at Chong-Ju; Guate- 
mala needs one, and Venezuela two, 
one a teacher for Caracas, the other 
an evangelist for the same station. 


Every Year We Have Calls For 
SHORT TERM MEN. 


Our High Schools and Colleges 
on the foreign field have places an- 
nually for ten or fifteen young Amer- 
ican College Graduates to teach in 
English on a two or three year con- 
tract. These must be unmarried men. 
These are positions of rare oppor- 
tunity for service, travel and ex- 
perience. Many of these men, after 
further preparation, return to the 
field as regular missionaries. 


MeEbDICcCAL WORK 


is going forward in a most hopeful 
way. 


CHOSEN (KoreEA) 


needs a doctor at Pyeng Yang and 
Taiku. 


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SYRIA 


calls for a doctor at Tripoli. 


THE PHILIPPINE MISSION 


should have one immediately at 


Albay. 
WESTERN INDIA 


is seeking for a man who can teach 
bacteriology and is especially trained 
in laboratory work for the Miraj 
Hospital, one of the best equipped, 
most efficient hospitals of any Mis- 
sion. 


The great non-Christian world 
presents a dire need to-day for 


THE CHRISTIAN TRAINED NURSE. 


The dispensaries, hospitals, and 
medical schools are all there, but 
where are the nurses?—needed to 
give those suffering millions the 
benefits of Western Medical Science; 
needed, perhaps more than this, to 
train native nurses and send them 
out, devoted, Christian women to 
carry, in this peculiarly effective 
form, the Gospel message. The 
greatest possible achievement in 
Christian service is the multiple 
transmission of high spiritual ideals. 


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Foreign Missionary nursing presents 
a remarkable opportunity. The work 
of the Foreign Missionary Nurse is 
quite different from that of the nurse 
in the homeland. She is a teacher 
and trainer; she is an evangelist; she 
has the opportunity of impressing 
upon the lives of the native nurses 
whom she is training and of the 
thousands of patients whom she and 
they treat, her highest spiritual 
ideals. This calls for every resource 
even the college girl may possess. 
All of her experience and education, 
in whatever line, will come into play 
here. 

Although there may always be 
room at home in every calling, there 
often seems in these cities of the 
United States a congestion of doc- 
tors and of nurses. ‘There, in that 
needy non-Christian world, is a 
wonderfully open field, an oppor- 
tunity for you to do a great work of 
your own, not just to follow some 
one else. Think of China with only 
140 missionary nurses to 400,000,- 
000; and Persia with 5 missionary 
nurses to 10,000,000 and _ similar 


conditions in other lands. 
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The missionary nurse needs every- 
thing in the way of training that is 
required here at home, and infinitely 
more. 


Think what it will mean to be at 
the head of a Training School for 
Nurses with Chinese, Korean, and 
Indian women just awakening to the 
joy of service. And then, most of 
all, here is given a wonderful oppor- 
tunity to bring the Christian message 
into the hearts and lives of needy 
thousands, in one of its most effec- 
tive forms. ‘There is no pulpit so 
influential as a Hospital Ward, and 
no pew so receptive as a Hospital 


Bed.” 


We need immediately no less than 
eight nurses: four or five for China; 
one for Andong—Chosen (Korea) ; 
one for Iloilo, Philippine Islands; 
two for the Miraj Hospital, Western 
India; and one for the Hospital at 
Teheran, East Persia. 


It will require real heroism and the 
true missionary motive. We cannot 
offer large financial inducements— 
only a comfortable living. But for 
earnest young women, looking for a 
life investment, here are offered 
wonderful returns. 


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Those needy millions, without 
Scientific Medicine, or the great 
blessings which the trained nurse 
alone can take to them, are holding 
out beseeching hands to the young 
women of America. 


Nearly all of the needs mentioned 
in this leaflet are immediate and 
urgent and we shall welcome im- 
mediate correspondence regarding 
them. 3 


The calls from the field increase 
each year. We shall be constantly 
in need of the best equipped, most 
devoted young men and women of 
the Church to meet the various and 
regular demands made upon us by 
the needy millions of the unevan- 
gelized world. 


Can you find anywhere a better 
investment of your life ? 


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The Board of Foreign Missions of the 
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 
156 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK 


Form 2500 | October, 1916 


